NOTE: I'm throwing this up in part to learn whether there's a more elegant way to do any of this. So, please, spatial types, pitch in with any suggestions for improvement.
(In particular, Step 2, which sets up a "SpatialPoints"
grid with the points to which values will be extracted, always seems painfully low-level to me.)
This uses over()
to extract attributes from a "SpatialPolygonDataFrame"
at the coordinates contained in a "SpatialPoints"
object constructed for just that purpose.
library(rgdal)
## (1) Read in an example shapefile
dsn <- system.file("vectors", package = "rgdal")[1]
scot_BNG <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="scot_BNG")
scot_BNG <- scot_BNG[1:5,] # Let's just use part of it
## (2) Set up a SpatialPoints object with the grid of points
## for which you want to extract values
res <- 10000 ## Distance between grid points (30 in OP's question)
BB <- bbox(scot_BNG)
BB <- res*round(BB/res) ## Pretty up the bounding box
GT <- GridTopology(cellcentre.offset = BB[,1],
cellsize = c(res, res),
cells.dim = (c(diff(BB[1,]), diff(BB[2,]))/res) + 1)
SP <- SpatialPoints(GT, proj4string = CRS(proj4string(scot_BNG)))
## (3) Extract the values
vals <- over(SP, scot_BNG)
res <- cbind(coordinates(SP), vals)
## Finally, have a look at a few of the points.
x <- res[!is.na(res$SP_ID),]
rbind(head(x,3), tail(x,3))[1:10]
# x y SP_ID NAME ID_x COUNT SMR LONG LAT PY
# 4 230000 970000 0 Sutherland 12 5 279.3 58.06 4.64 37521
# 5 240000 970000 0 Sutherland 12 5 279.3 58.06 4.64 37521
# 25 220000 960000 0 Sutherland 12 5 279.3 58.06 4.64 37521
# 425 260000 780000 4 Bedenoch 17 2 186.9 57.06 4.09 27075
# 426 270000 780000 4 Bedenoch 17 2 186.9 57.06 4.09 27075
# 427 280000 780000 4 Bedenoch 17 2 186.9 57.06 4.09 27075